Representing history: on structuring history lessons as design

  • Authors:

  • Flávio S. Azevedo;Heather Batchelor

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA;School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

  • Venue:
  • ICLS'08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on International conference for the learning sciences - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We report on a design experiment in which history lessons are structured in terms of the design and refinement of visual forms that can afford powerful reasoning about the nature of history as an ongoing, contested socio-cultural construction.